Game Night 12/23: Sabres at Lightning

All I want for Christmas is my hockey team to get the chip back on its shoulder. Right now this club is doing nothing to dissuade its critics up north from the idea the 2004 Stanley Cup team was nothing more than a flash in the pan. Question is, do these Lightning care enough to prove it wasn't?
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Vincent Lecavalier[3] was given a one game suspension for a high sticking incident that was ruled to be intentional and thus did not play tonight. Pavel Kubina[4] also did not play and thus the team went with 5 defensemen tonight. John Grahame stopped 27 of 30 in the game before the Sabres tacked on an empty net goal. Honestly though, it means little if the club is going to provide so little goal support for him.
Paul Ranger[5] played 20:18 of even hockey. Ryan Craig[6] played 10:08 and registered three shots on goal. Darren Reid[7] played 7:43. Evgeny Artyukhin[8], after taking an early hooking call, was the low man amongst rookies with 6:26 of ice time.
I hope this team takes the opportunity over the next two days to reflect on where it is, how it has allowed itself to fall so far behind in its own division, and what will happen if they don't show up to work ready to play 60 minutes of desperate hockey on Monday.
Game sheet from [url=http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20052006/GS020517.HTM]NHL.com.[/url]